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A/N: This story is currently unbeta'd, updates will be slow
thoughts: italics
flashbacks: bold
Storyline
To save his Son,Gambit goes to the last people he thought would ever help him,the X-men
edit 4/28: Changed layout to make more reader-friendly.
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Chapter Three
"Kelly's men... offered to save him if I did some jobs for him." Remy states, looking off into space. " I agreed. They saved him. I stole a collar and blew up an island. Then I was done mais, they wanted to extend the contract."
Logan stared at the other man for a moment,still not sure what had really happened. Remy continued after a moment. " At first,when I found Jean gone,I thought Kelly had taken him. I'd just finished telling him the contract was expired; mais I didn' find him with them."
Logan clears his throat, before saying " Gumbo, we found out who took him. We jus' need to find out where he is."
"Ce qui ? Qui ? Qui a mon bébé ?"(What? Who? Who has my baby) Remy demands.
" Gumbo I don' speak gibbirish." Logan states.
" Who has him?" Remy asks again agitated.
"...Have ya ever heard of Sinister?" Logan asks.
"Ce salaud ! Il ne va pas s'en tirer avec cela ! Je vais le tuer, je vais lui déchirer ! N'est pas assez il a joué Boucher avec moi, il ne peut pas faire ça à mon fils !"(That bastard! He will not get away with this! I'll kill him, I'll tear him apart! Isn't enough he played butcher with me,he can't do that to my son!) Gambit says jumping to his feet and pacing around the kitchen.
" Okay, I assume that means you have." Logan states,staring at the other man, while Gambit paced charging and decharging a deck of cards.
" We have to find them! Non, we can't wait. I have to go get him now." Gambit says turning to Logan again.
"... We don' know where he is, we know where he plans to be." Logan states.
Frustrated Remy begins to walk out of the room, still muttering to himself. Logan states, " I sent a team to see if they have arrived yet. My team should be checking in anytime now."
Remy nods before leaving the kitchen. He needed to get out of the kitchen. He needed to blow something up, but there wasn't a safe place to do it ... wait. When Xavier had shown him around years ago, they had a training room, maybe they rebuilt it too. He headed towards the elevator,intent on seeing if the room was still there.
Rogue slipped into the elevator as it began to close. They decend silently, but as the doors open,Rogue states . " Ya need to use the danger room, it's the door on the left. I'll set up a sim for ya. "
Remy nods. These people were all very odd. How did the girl know where had been heading? She must've overheard his conversation with Logan, and she had his memories... " Did you see everything?" Remy asks.
Rogue shakes her head " I never do. It'll take me awhile to completly sort out what I did see. But I heard what ya said,unlike Logan, I speak french." She says as she leads the way.
Logan joins her as she watches from the control room. After a moment she says " His son was dying and the doctors couldn't help him. Kelly's man told him that they had new treatments that could save him. Gambit resisted at first, but then the child got worse... he felt he had to choose between his child and a bunch of people he'd never met... He chose his son. And though he feels bad for what he did to Lorna, he'd do it again to save the boy."
Logan nods. He felt bad for the man's plight,heck he wasn't sure that he would have done things any differently. However, he didn't trust the man. The man could turn on them at any time... still, he understood.
They silently watch, as Gambit wanders up and down a cityscape, charging everything he could get a hold of. After a few minutes, he began scaling walls and faulting from one roof to another, the whole time still continuing to destroy random objects.
Logan watched on equal parts fascinated and appalled as Gambit then jumps from the furthest building,while charging his staff, and landing gracefully on the pavement, brought the staff down on the ground in front of him. The resulting explosion was felt through out the imaginary city block, as the shock wave raced towards them, Rogue ducked, knowing the strength of the force could possibly shatter the windows of the control room.
The glass shatters, raining on Logan, as Gambit finally straightens and calls out an apology. Rarely has he ever put that much of a charge out at one, but having used a significant amount of energy, he was finally ready to lay down. After all, he couldn't save his son if he was dropping from exhaustion. Rogue heads down to the Danger Room to help him to bed, he is to spent to stand on his own. Logan watches her help their former and maybe future enemy with apprehension. She was getting far to involved in this. Of course, having absorbed him, she was most likely reacting to his feelings about this. Logan couldn't imagine the horror of learning that such a monster had your child, or that there was no way to know where they are.
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Kitty and Bobby arrived home shortly after Gambit and Rogue returned to bed. Immediately they sought out Logan,who was drinking another cup of coffee in the large kitchen. He didn't feel right going to bed while he had the pair looking for Sinister. He was writing an indecent report and work order out to leave for Forge in the morning, asking that he replace the glass in the control room as well as double checking the equipment for damage. He was honestly impressed,after all, the Danger room was designed to contain powers.
" Logan, we went through the entire tunnel network. There was no sign of Sinister or a baby." Bobby states. " But there were boxes of supplies in one of the labs, that seemed to suggest that they will be there soon." Kitty nods, before adding." It was creepy down there, like it's been unused for awhile."
Logan sighs. He was hoping this would be easy. " Thank you, and you set up the motion alarms?" Logan questions. The pair nod and he sends them to bed. There was nothing more they could do tonight. The alarms would send an alert to Cerebro, and his cell phone when it was triggered. He hoped it would sound soon.
Slowly he makes his way upstairs, deciding along the way not to update Gambit until morning. After all there was no real update. They still had no idea where the child is,only where he will be. Logan thought about contacting Xavier, but he doubted the man had found anything new yet either. They needed to find him though, because two weeks was a very long time for anyone to be at that monster's mercy, let alone an infant.
